Caciola, Nancy Mandeville

Afterlives

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ISBN 13:: 9781501710698
author:: Caciola, Nancy Mandeville
format:: Paperback
publisher:: Cornell University Press
language:: English
Publication Year:: 2017
Pages:: 384
Dimensions:: 22.86 x 15.24 x 2.16 centimetres
Genre:: Nonfiction, Social Sciences, Death & Dying,
Condition:: New
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Afterlives: The Return of the Dead in the Middle Ages by Nancy Mandeville Caciola The medieval period saw a rich and complex set of imaginative traditions about death and the afterlife. Stories about the returned dead, who interacted with the living as disembodied spirits or living corpses, were widespread and reflected the society's preoccupations with the self, regeneration, and loss. This book explores the phenomenon of the living's relationship with the dead in Europe from 1000 to 1500, considering both Christian and pagan beliefs. Caciola examines how certain traditions survived and evolved over time, and how attitudes towards death and the afterlife diverged and overlapped across different contexts and social strata. As Christianity spread across Europe, it absorbed new images of death and afterlife from various pagan cultures, leading to a complex interplay between Christian eschatology and pre-existing afterlife imaginings.

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